Christopher Hitchens on Writing, Mortality and Cancer.
Editor’s Note: Page references are to Mortality unless otherwise noted. Christopher Hitchens never met a cow so sacred that he would not gleefully serve it medium-rare with a glass of red wine (or more-likely scotch), if the mood struck just right.Mortality (2012) presents a collection of essays written by Christopher Hitchens after he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. In these blinks, you’ll explore fundamental questions addressing death and life, the nature of pain and how we cope with them.Christopher Hitchens is one of those writers whose prodigious output of letters, essays, and commentaries on the life, the universe, and everything is so pointed and provocative that he is capable of irritating anyone, sometimes repeatedly so, familiar enough with his work to have read more than just one of his essays.
Love, Poverty, and War Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. Love, Poverty, and War was written by and Christopher Hitchens. The 496 page book was published by Nation Books in 2004 with an ISBN 10 of 078674006x. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats.The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men.
Christopher Hitchens, in full Christopher Eric Hitchens, (born April 13, 1949, Portsmouth, England—died December 15, 2011, Houston, Texas, U.S.), British American author, critic, and bon vivant whose trenchant polemics on politics and religion positioned him at the forefront of public intellectual life in the late 20th and early 21st century.
